Settling: Carolina Cortella + Patrick Dunford + Nick Gorham + Greta Waller

Settling presents works by Carolina Cortella, Patrick Dunford, Nick Gorham, and Greta Waller, and will be on view from August 16th through October 4th, 2025 in downtown Mill Valley. This group exhibition gathers four artists whose works pause moments of transformation in nature and material. Patrick Dunford’s watercolors of abandoned rail hoppers trace the slow reclamation of industry by the landscape. Nick Gorham’s abstracted paintings register changes in light, memory, and perception, unfolding in layered color and shifting forms. Greta Waller luminously captures melting ice, preserving its fleeting prisms of light in oil. In ceramic wall works, Carolina Cortella mirrors processes like rusting and growth, where surface and form emerge through time and fire. These works operate in a state of settling, quietly, but persistently in flux.